The Rivers Elders and Leaders’ Council said on Friday Nigeria must return to the 1963 Constitution in order to ensure proper restructuring, unity and peaceful co-existence.

They also kicked against the inclusion of Rivers State by South East agitators in the proposed Biafra Republic, declaring that it would never happen following the unpleasant experience of the Civil War.

The leaders, through their chairman, Chief Albert Horsfall, the pioneer Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), stated these during a press briefing held on Thursday in Port Harcourt.

They said: “Our position is 1963 Nigeria. In 1960, we had Independence Constitution. In 1963, it was turned into law, as a Republican Constitution. We want a return to that situation.

“Biafra has no place whatsoever in Rivers State. Rivers State belongs to Rivers people. The first experience with the place called Biafra, being Ojukwu’s (Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu’s) Republic of Biafra, was such an agony for Rivers people. We do not wish any reference or return to Biafra anymore.”

The leaders also asked Governor Nyesom Wike to tackle insecurity in the state.

The group added: “We intend to send a letter to the Rivers State government, drawing attention to the insecurity and the consequences thereof.

“It is in everybody’s interest that we have security in Rivers State. For the government’s economic policy to work, there has to be security.”

is laughable and grave inane to read from the pages of newspapers and other publications the inclusion of south-south peope by the igbos in their so call Biafra nation,as if we the south-south people have gone blind and have forgotten so soon what happened during the biafran war.How the igbos wanted to exterminate all the South-South people just to inherit our God given land.Has the igbos forgotten how the south south wealth was used to developed the present Enugu state and all others igbo land during the former eastern region that included the present South-South. Have the igbos forgotten all the internal apartheid and colonization that took place and meted on the people of south south by the igbos when we were in the same eastern region.The igbos should grow up and should stop looking for a group they will use this time around with their biafra.They should search gravely when the rain started beating them.They should pause and ask why no body want their inclusion in their quest for self rule.

Taiwo Umolu

Absolutely brilliant. We must return to status quo ante, January 15, 1966. All other Constitutions are illegal as their creators; the military juntas